Which isnвЂ™t exactly crowd-pleasing protocol for an act touring his 39th studio album.

Beyond вЂњFriend of the Devil,вЂќ the other oldies he played included вЂњWatching the River Flow,вЂќ вЂњWhen I Paint My Masterpiece,вЂќ вЂњGotta Serve SomebodyвЂќ and a rollicking, extremely lascivious вЂњIвЂ™ll Be Your Baby Tonight.вЂќ

True to its billing as part of the Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour, as opposed to the Never Ending Tour rubric Dylan used for decades before the pandemic temporarily forced him off the road, TuesdayвЂ™s show featured all but one of the 10 tracks from his latest LP. On bass was Tony Garnier and on drums the subtle and funky Charley Drayton, a recent - and very shrewd - addition to DylanвЂ™s live band. The stage was set like a dimly lit ballroom in вЂњTwin PeaksвЂќ in a further Lynchian touch, guitarists Bob Britt and Doug Lancio and pedal-steel player Donnie Herron - all slender white dudes with neatly cropped salt-and-pepper haircuts - looked nearly identical in the low light, which established a dreamy, semi-surreal vibe. Tulsa, OklahomaвЂ™s Bob Dylan Center opened to the public this week, throwing into focus a towering cultural figure and a city wrestling with its past. Music In Tulsa, the new Bob Dylan museum reconsiders the legacies of an icon and a city Imagine Rod Stewart making the same demands at his Tuesday gig just up the 101 Freeway at the Hollywood Bowl and youвЂ™ll get a sense of the uniquely privileged esteem Dylan enjoys compared to his classic-rock peers.ДЄs a musical experience, though, this performance felt like nothing so much as a gift: a thoroughly engrossing 90-minute outpouring of pulpy juke-joint roots music and spectral folk-soul balladry, with Dylan in richly expressive voice and his bandmates accompanying him with an almost superhuman sensitivity. TuesdayвЂ™s sold-out show was the first of three through Thursday at the Pantages on a West Coast tour behind 2020вЂ™s excellent вЂњRough and Rowdy Ways.вЂќ (Dylan also will stop next week at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach and at the Santa Barbara Bowl.) And, to be clear, the evening still bore traces of DylanвЂ™s cantankerous streak: Cellphones had to be locked inside pouches drinks werenвЂ™t allowed in the theater, nor were photographers latecomers, including famous ones like Brad Pitt, had to wait in the lobby until a break between songs.

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